20 movies like A Free Soul, ordered by similarity : Fatima(2015), Leslie, My Name Is Evil(2009), Shepherds and Butchers(2016), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), Having You(2013), The Long Dark Hall(1951), Yeh Dillagi(1994), Fanny(1932), The Winslow Boy(1999), The Second Mother(2015), After the Storm(2016), The Good Earth(1937) ...
Drama
USA
1931
91 Minutes
Norma Shearer Lionel Barrymore Clark Gable Leslie Howard James Gleason
lawyer mobster daughter fiancé judge emotional melodramatic courtroom family home trial love triangle murder pursuit sacrifice 1930s
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Drama
2015
79 Minutes
Soria Zeroual Zita Hanrot Kenza Noah Aïche Franck Andrieux Chawki Amari Yolanda Mpele Edith Saulnier Dalila Bencherif
daughter mother family teenager single mother cleaning lady brooding emotional endearing heartwarming intense home town relationships love family money emotion mother/daughter relationship discovery
After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.
Crime, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
2009
85 Minutes
Gregory Smith Kristen Hager Kristin Adams Robert Dayton Sarah Gadon Kaniehtiio Horn Peter Keleghan Travis Milne Ryan Robbins Sherry McLaughlin Anjelica Scannura
charles manson murder suspect murder victim murderer juror judge intense melodramatic profound raw shocking court jail cult murder trial metamorphosis fall sacrifice revenge
Perry (Gregory Smith) falls in love with Leslie (Kristen Hager) while serving as a juror at her murder trial.
Drama
South Africa|USA|Germany
2016
106 Minutes
Andrea Riseborough Steve Coogan Deon Lotz Robert Hobbs Garion Dowds Marcel van Heerden Nicola Hanekom Eduan van Jaarsveldt Carel Nel
lawyer prison guard judge wife murderer prisoner prisoners death row inmate brutal chilling emotional gripping intense moving powerful raw sad shocking south africa cape town
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2013
97 Minutes
Anna Friel Romola Garai Andrew Buchan Philip Davis Isaac Andrews Steven Cree Harry Hadden-Paton Hattie Morahan
love child fiancé fiancée former lover son father emotional engaging gripping heartwarming intense tender united kingdom coast town home hospital family relationships father/son relationship
Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Drama
UK
1951
86 Minutes
Rex Harrison Reginald Beck Lilli Palmer Denis O'Dea Tania Held Henrietta Barry Raymond Huntley Patricia Wayne Anthony Dawson Meriel Forbes Brenda De Banzie
murder suspect wife mistress murderer lawyer judge tense courtroom london apartment family home police station trial murder false accusations marriage infidelity mystery 1950s
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Drama, Romance
India
1994
155 Minutes
Akshay Kumar Saif Ali Khan Kajol Saeed Jaffrey Reema Lagoo Achyut Potdar Neena Softa Deven Verma Karisma Kapoor
father son brother businessman driver daughter amusing charming cool emotional hilarious melodramatic house bungalow office garage car love at first sight love interest love triangle
A poor girl is rebuked by a rich boy. She leaves town to return successful and rich. He falls for her but his brother is already in love with the girl.
Drama
1932
128 Minutes
Raimu Orane Demazis Pierre Fresnay Fernand Charpin Mouriès Robert Vattier
fiancée mother father merchant sailor manager emotional engaging intense marseilles, france port café pregnancy love marriage family social standing illegitimate child sacrifice love
Marius (Pierre Fresnay) goes to sea, pregnant Fanny (Orane Demazis) marries, and Cesar (Raimu) is a godfather in part two of the Marseille trilogy.
Drama, History
UK|USA
1999
104 Minutes
Nigel Hawthorne Jeremy Northam Rebecca Pidgeon Gemma Jones Guy Edwards Matthew Pidgeon Colin Stinton Aden Gillett Sarah Flind Neil North Sara Stewart
father teen boy daughter son lawyer fiancé engaging emotional witty london family home court justice family honor women's rights politics pride class distinctions pursuit quest
Following the theft of a postal-order, a fourteen-year old cadet is expelled from Naval College. To save the honour of the boy and his family, the pre-eminent barrister of the day is engaged to take on the might the Admiralty.
Drama
Brazil
2015
112 Minutes
Regina Casé Michel Joelsas Lourenço Mutarelli Karine Teles Camila Márdila Helena Albergaria Luis Miranda Theo Werneck Luci Pereira
housekeeper maid family member mother daughter son charming disheartening heartwarming emotional melodramatic intense brazil são paulo apartment relationships single mothers mother/daughter relationship abandonment love
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Drama
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
private detective family estranged father son mother mourner brooding charming emotional inspiring moving rousing japan town detective agency home family relationships second chance determination
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Drama
USA
1937
138 Minutes
Paul Muni Luise Rainer Walter Connolly Tilly Losch Charley Grapewin Jessie Ralph Soo Yong Keye Luke Roland Lui Ching Wah Lee Harold Huber
farmer wife pretty woman son emotional melodramatic china farm farming family poverty aspirations marriage love triangle transformation love sacrifice 1930s
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Drama
2016
100 Minutes
Bérénice Bejo Cédric Kahn Marthe Keller Jade Soentjens Margaux Soentjens Catherine Salée Philippe Jeusette Pascal Rogard
wife husband child ex-partner mother father amusing emotional melodramatic heartwarming intense engaging france house relationships love family unhappy marriage money discovery
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
mother wife daughter husband father wealthy man melodramatic uneasy engaging camp massachusetts small town mill family home mother/daughter relationship divorce class distinctions marriage family relationships
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Drama
1954
116 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Van Johnson Walter Pidgeon Donna Reed Eva Gabor George Dolenz Roger Moore Kurt Kaszner
husband wife sister father suitor daughter melodramatic emotional paris family home café love triangle ambition wealth family alcoholism writing love wretched excess 1950s
Sudden money ruins a struggling writer (Van Johnson) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) in post-World War II Paris.
Crime, Drama
USA
1995
131 Minutes
Kathy Bates Jennifer Jason Leigh Judy Parfitt Christopher Plummer David Strathairn Eric Bogosian John C. Reilly Ellen Muth Bob Gunton Roy Cooper Wayne Robson
journalist housekeeper elderly woman detective father daughter disturbing brooding melodramatic maine small town family home police station ferry mansion murder dark secrets domestic violence mysterious past mother/daughter relationship
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
New Zealand
2006
102 Minutes
Karl Urban Matthew Sunderland Lois Lawn Simon Ferry Tandi Wright Paul Glover William Kircher Georgia Fabish Fayth Rasmussen
murderer older man mother daughter boyfriend survivor disturbing tense emotional profound new zealand small town house street beach mass murder violence arson david gray survival
Based on the Aramoana Massacre that occurred on 13 November and 14 November 1990. Resident David Gray, an unemployed gun collector, went on a rampage in which 13 people were shot dead, before Gray himself was shot by police.
Drama
USA
1947
116 Minutes
Gregory Peck Alida Valli Charles Laughton Charles Coburn Ann Todd Ethel Barrymore Louis Jourdan Leo G. Carroll Joan Tetzel Isobel Elsom John Goldsworthy
lawyer murderer servant judge police officer hotel manager tense engaging gripping suspenseful brooding london courtroom hotel restaurant home murder trial marriage false accusations
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Drama
1950
101 Minutes
Ann Todd Norman Wooland Ivan Desny Leslie Banks Edward Chapman Barbara Everest Andre Morell
suspect lover father wealthy man lawyer judge melodramatic gripping family home courtroom scotland trial murder class distinctions scandal forbidden love mystery 1850s
Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in Victorian Scotland.
Drama
France
2017
76 Minutes
Éric Caravaca Esther Garrel Louise Chevillotte Paul Toucang Félix Kysyl Michel Charrel Nicolas Bridet Justine Bachelet
young woman boyfriend ex-boyfriend father girlfriend professor engaging melodramatic emotional gripping intense family home united states family old age relationships change failed romance father/daughter relationship love
A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age.